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Articles

• AIAA Aerospace - archives
• AIAA Houston Horizons - Newsletter
• Air & Space Magazine - archive
• Marshall Star - weekly newspaper (archive)
• The Space Review - archive

Blogs

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• Cosmic Log (C) - Alan Boyle
• Flight International (C) - Staff blog
• Guabonito Times (C) - Jason Perry (from the Cassini project)
• HiRISE team - MRO imaging
• Mission to Mars - Steve Squyres MER project
• New Scientist (C)
• Phoenix project - team
• Planetary society blog - Emily Lakdawalla
• Space Launch Report - Ed Kyle
• Space Politics (C) - Jeff Foust
• Space Transport News (C) - Hobbyspace
• The Space Elevator (C) - space elevator news and links
• The Write Stuff (C) - Michael Cabbage
• Transterrestrial Musings (C) - Rand Simberg (see Category: Space)
• WhatOnMars - news blog and links

Documents

• ESA Publications - archive including Bulletin from August 1994
• ESAS Report- NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study, 2005
• Extensive List - Space related material
• Human Exploration of Mars - Reality or Fantasy? - Donald Rapp's detailed critique of ESAS
• Human Space Exploration: The Next 50 Years - Michael D. Griffin, March 2007 (new)
• Jim Oberg Lectures - slides and docs
• JPL document server
• LEAG 2007 - The Lunar Outpost and Beyond - presentations
• LPI Abstracts and reports
• LRC document server
• Lunar ISRU B. Kent Joosten, 1993
• Mars Direct - Outline of Robert Zubrin's plan, 29 Oct 2003
• Mars Foundation - library
• Mars Institute library
• Mars Scout - library
• MSFC technical reports
• NASA document server
• NASA exploration system - library
• NIAC funded studies - reports
• Planetary Society Report (PDF) Extending Human presence into the Solar System, Mike Griffin Jul 2004
• Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team - July 1997
• Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team - Version 3.0 June, 1998
• Research & Technology - annual reports from Glenn Research Center (archive)
• Rutgers Symposium on Lunar Settlements June 2007 (ppt slides)
• Space Science: Solar system exploration - presentations from October 2007 Moscow forum
• Space Stations and Spaceflight 02 Apr 2002
• t/Space library
• Technology Exchange Conference - NASA Exploration meeting presentations, November 2007

Forums

• NasaSpaceFlight - Shuttle etc
• New Mars - all things Mars, general
• Space.com - largest space forum, everything
• The International Space Fellowship - general
• The Space Race - general, low traffic
• UnmannedSpaceflight.com Where the imagery wizards flock.

Links

• British Interplanetary Society
• FAS Space Policy Project
• First African in Space Portal
• Kids4Mars
• Mars Society
• MEPAG Mars links
• Moon Society
• National Space Society
• SinoDefence - Chinese space program
• The Planetary Society

Lists

• Acronyms - NASA search engine
• Astronauts - statistics and bios
• Exosolar planets- continuously updated full catalog
• JPL Space Calendar - future events
• Launch Centers - worldwide launch sites
• Launch Records and Manifests - Steven Pietrobon
• Launch Schedule - Spaceflight Now
• Launchers - reliability (Ed Kyle)
• Manned spaceflights - from Gagarin todate
• NASA Extragalactic astronomical objects
• NASA Science missions - all past and current missions
• National Space Science Data Center - Space science mission data
• Near Earth Objects - Impact risk
• RussianSpaceweb.com - Russian space program and technology
• Satellites - organizations & technology
• SkyServer - web based sky map with 215 million objects covering 8000 square degrees
• SIMBAD - Astronomical database (3+ million objects)
• Space Chronology - GSFC
• Space Launch Reports - launch logs and reports
• Spacewarn - NASA monthly listing of launches

Media

• Arianespace Video archive
• Energia Video archive
• ESA Video archive
• NASA Direct - Rocket Launch Series (video archive)
• Reach video NASA TV advertisement (4MB)
• Robert Zubrin audio Testimony to Senate October 2003, describing Mars Direct (4MB)
• RocketCam video archive
• Sea Launch video archive
• Space Multimedia - checkout the Video archive and Updates sections new
• Space Photography
• Starsem video archive
• Viking video - archive
• Robert McMahan Photo space photos archive

News

• Aviation Week & Space Technology
• ESA Press releases
• Flight International - space section
• Florida Today - space news
• GSFC Tech Trends - newsletter archive
• GlobalSecurity.org - space section
• Jonathan's Space Report - fortnightly news, recent launch details
• Kennedy Space Center's Spaceport News- biweekly NASA publication
• NASA News
• NasaSpaceFlight
• NASA Watch
• NewScientistSpace.com
• Space.com
• SpaceDaily
• Spaceflightnow
• Spaceref
• spacetoday.net

Newsgroups

• sci.space.news
• sci.space.policy
• sci.space.shuttle
• sci.space.science
• sci.space.tech

Papers

• arXiv Astrophysics
• arXiv Space Physics
• Dynamics
• EMSEC 2007 European Mars Science & Exploration Conference
• Fourth Mars Polar Science Conference 2006 - abstracts
• Georgia Tech SSDL - space systems design lab papers 1987 onwards
• JGR-Planets - planetary science
• LPI abstracts
• LPSC 2007 abstracts
• Mars Journal - full papers from 2005 onwards
• MRO High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
• MSL landing site selection
• RASC-AL Space Operations - archive

Software

• Celestia 3D space simulaor (free and open source)
• GeoPlayer Mars simulator (free demo)
• JPL Solar System Simulator (free and web based)
• Midnight Mars Browser MER imagery, virtual panoramas, auto-stitches... From the raw imagery. (Free and Open Source)
• Starry Night 3D space simulators (commercial)
• Stellarium Sky simulator (free and open source)

Tutorials

• Aeronautics and Astronautics - MIT OpenCourseWare
• Astronomy 161 Solar System, University of Tennessee
• Astronomy 162 Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology, University of Tennessee
• Astronomy 250 Professor Marcia Rieke, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
• Basics of Spaceflight JPL training module
• ESS102: SPACE AND SPACE TRAVEL Prof. Robert E Winglee, University of Washington
• Resources from Space University of Wisconsin / Fusion Technology Institute
• Space Shuttle engineering MIT OpenCourseWare (video and audio lectures)

see also: Online Textbooks

Webcasts

• Carnegie Institution - space/astronomy and other lectures (archive)
• ESA Television (archive)
• Exploratorium space topics and events since 1996 (archive)
• JAXA TV video stream available during live events
• JPL Lectures (archive)
• NASA Audio breaking news
• NASA Podcasts (archive)
• NASA TV
• Planetary Radio audio, weekly show from The Planetary Society (archive)
• Riding with Robots robotic spacecraft (archive down)
• Royal Astronomical Society - astronomy and space science (archive) - new
• Science Friday - audio, general science show includes space and astronomy (archive)
• SETI Radio (archive)
• STSI Space Telescope Science Institute lectures (archive)
• The Sky at Night BBC astronomy and space series (archive)
• The Space Show audio, several shows per week (archive)

YouTubes

• Ares TV - quarterly reports on the Ares projects
• ESA - official ESA videos
• JPL news- updates from JPL
• KSC Videos - updates from Kennedy Space Center
• NASA edge - funny space
• NASA explorer - Goddard TV on Astrophysics, Earth Observing, and Solar Science
• Reel NASA - men and women of the space program